góźina

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

Probably borrowed from Upper Sorbian hodźina, from Czech hodina, from Proto-Slavic *godina, from *godъ (“specific moment”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɨʑina/, /ˈɡɛʑina/, (dated) /ˈɡʊʑina/

Noun

góźina f (diminutive góźinka)

1. hour (60 minutes)

Declension

Declension of góźina

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	góźina	góźinje	góźiny
Genitive	góźiny	góźinowu	góźinow
Dative	góźinje	góźinoma	góźinam
Accusative	góźinu	góźinje	góźiny
Instrumental	góźinu	góźinoma	góźinami
Locative	góźinje	góźinoma	góźinach

Synonyms

• štunda

Derived terms

• góźinski

Further reading

• Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “góźina”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
• Starosta, Manfred (1999) “góźina”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag
• Lower Sorbian vocabulary. In: Haspelmath, M. & Tadmor, U. (eds.) World Loanword Database. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.